Patent 7385594 was granted and assigned to AU Optronics on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A position encoded sensing device having a display panel, a light guiding layer disposed on the display panel. The light guiding layer is configured to have encoded information therein. In addition, the position encoded sensing device includes a transceiver for detecting light and the encoded information that are guided out of the light guiding layer.